life stuff

• baseball
• snowboarding
• getting my license
• florida trip with baseball
• utah trip
• mexico
• first time getting stitches
• moving
• getting my first car
• getting a job

Best place in the world

To me, the most peacefully, best place in the world is Park City Utah. I just recently came back from a weekend trip to Park City about 2 weeks ago and I had a great time. We stayed at the Sundial Lodge which was a very nice hotel right one the mountain about 100 yards from the nearest lift. I went with the school so I was with some of my closest friends in paradise which made it even better. We didn’t know what to expect because our previous trips have been fun but nothing could compare to our accommodations this year. Our hotel room had 2 king size beds, a balcony, flat screen TV, full kitchen with dishwasher and a washer and dryer for our clothes. It was everything we needed and more, along with everything that our rooms had to offer the hotel itself had a lot of fun activities for when we weren’t on the hill. There was an outdoor heated pool, 2 hot tubs with one on the roof and plenty of other fun things to do. During the day we would ride the mountain and have a great time and around 4 when the lifts would close we would all come back meet up talk about our days and plan what we were going to do that night. One night we went into town and looked at all the shops and places to eat. at night it was just me and 3 of my best friends in our hotel room having the times of our lives. I will never forget this trip and the people that I enjoyed it with I hope we can all plan a trip like that next year because it is definitely worth it.

free writing

In this creative writing class I want to learn how to become a better writer because I'm not very good at it. I also want to learn about other peoples writing styles and how to make my writing more interesting to read.

Peer Edit

I edited joe and kevin's stories

Catfish review paper

Catfish Movie Review

Stu Daly

                This movie was great all around. I love the way they filmed it, it made it look like a documentary about Nev. I wouldn’t of changed the movie in anyway I think they did a great job of making it. My favorite part of the movie was the ending and how Nev went and found out the truth, it was very interesting and kept me wanting to watch more and more. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone especially people who are currently using Facebook because it shows what people can really do over the internet and that you have to be careful.

               

In the movie Catfish the main character Nev a photographer from New York City takes pictures of dancers and other things and he got his picture published in a new York magazine and about three months later he received a painting in the mail of one of the pictures he had taken that was supposedly painted by an 8 year old girl from Michigan named Abby. The painting was really good and surprised Nev so he wanted to contact Abby and eventually he started a relationship with Abby and her family. He would send her more pictures that he had taken and she would paint them and send them back to him. After a while Nev started talking to Abby’s sister and started to get close with her, her name was Megan and Nev thought that something could really come from their relationship.  They carried on an online relationship for about 8 months sending each other pictures and exchanging text messages.  After a while Nev travels to Vail Colorado for a dance festival and wants to meet Abby’s family. So after the dance festival him and his friends drive up to Michigan to meet the family and when they do it is not quite what Nev expected and he tries to figure out what’s weird about the whole situation.

                Through the whole relationship Nev thought that it was something real and could maybe go somewhere with it but after he meets with the family he realizes that everything was pretty much made up and that he wasted almost 8 months of his life talking to this person who wasn’t even real. The movie did a really good job of showing everything that happened and going into detail so the viewers didn’t get confused because it would have been easy if the filming and editing wasn’t done right.

               

Overall the whole idea of the movie was great. I enjoyed watching the whole movie because in the beginning it was a little slow but it was just working up to the ending which was a great surprise. I didn’t expect the way it ended at all but it was very good. I love the soundtrack and the way it was filmed because it made it seem very real and part of what was going on. I liked that Nev went and spent the time to investigate the family because he knew it was kind of sketchy to begin with but I’m glad that he went and found out the truth.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys a decent movie this would probably be more for adults because I’m not sure a young kid would be able to comprehend what is really going on. The whole facebook thing is big now and it’s important that people understand that people can make fake profiles and pretend to be other people. This movie really shows that it can happen to anyone, there are people out there that will spend the time to do that. Everything about this movie was very interesting and I would recommend it to all of my friends.

catfish day 3

the ending of this movie really suprised me i thought there was going to be a real megan and i was hoping they would go to see her. but it turns out that megan was made up to. i like the way nev handled the whole situation he was calm and got her to admit it in a nice way. angela was really weird and awkward which is what i would expect out of someone who did that. i love the ending where it describes why the movie is named catfish it gave it a comical ending. overall it was a very good movie and i enjoyed it.

catfish day 2

i think its really weird that nev had an 8 or 9 month relationship with a 40 some year old lady and they shared intimate text messages with him. im glad the nev went and found out the truth about everything because it would not have turned out the same way if he had not done that. i want to see what megan looks like because angela made up all of the people the nev knew. i kinda thought something was sketchy about the whole thing but i wasnt expecting that angela created her own little world on facebook and made it believable for a while.

catfish movie

this movie is pretty interesting so far, im still wondering why the movie is called catfish though. the whole relationship over facebook is kind of sketchy im interested in finding out what happens when they go to michigan and see if they are real and not lieing to him. if i was him i would probably look more into it before going to meet them in person because it seems kind of weird the way they are acting.

photoshop project

position paper

In what ways is mobile technology changing our society?

Stu Daly

                There are many new forms of mobile technology that have been coming out lately. From skype and webcams to the new smart phones and handheld computers. With all the new technology people are starting to change the way they do things. It makes everything a lot easier and faster which might be good with the fast world that we live in but it could also be bad, we might be come lazy and have technology fix all of our problems and make everything easier.

                New technology can be very good for us but it also has its downsides.  Its good because it allows us to connect with our friends and family that do not live close to us by skyping or if they have the new iphone 4 facetimeing them. We can also search and find more things faster on the internet and with our phones. A while ago the phone companies were all advertising their 3g networks and I thought that was as far as it was going to go but now all of the phone companies are advertising their 4g networks, I’m just wondering how far it’ll go, 12 g networks?  I’ve noticed my life is a lot easier with a smart phone that I have internet on, I can check all my forms of social networking as well as let people know plans faster via texting. My parents can also get a hold of me a lot easier now. I can also check my bank account, and my grades with my phone. I almost don’t need a computer anymore. I think sometime in the future they will invent a device that has everything in one a phone computer and TV all in one little handheld device. Apple has already come close to this with the new ipad all it needs is a phone and a TV and it has everything, and I’m pretty sure there capable of doing that in the near future.  

                I think that in 10 years everything we do will have some sort of technology involved, in other words technology will run our lives and make it easier for us to live day to day. Whether you like it or not that’s probably what’s going to happen. Your cell phone will be able to drive your car and make dinner for you pretty soon. Everyone has their own opinion on the fact, I’m all for it I think our lives will be much easier with more technology in our lives but others think it will totally change us for the worse. Either way you look at it. Its going to happen.